Nehaveigur

Drinking, drugs, crime and cult membership are all down compared to a generation ago. Adam Mastroianni on Experimental History argues that this decline in deviance may be a marker of a general decline in cultural weirdness and innovation. Are we getting tamer and less interesting? As Mastroianni himself observes, not everything fits the pattern. Tattoos, piercings, weird hair styles and conspiracy theories are up.